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by Huss, John


  Oscars; see Academy Awards

  overhypothesis, 11–12

  Paine, Thomas, 152

  Pallas, Peter Simon 180

  Peirce, Charles, 219, 282–83, 290

  physics, 99–109; equations of, 113–14; laws of, 101–02; time-symmetry of, 101, 115

  Pinto, Freida, 199

  Planet of the Apes (1968 movie), 3, 41, 67, 125–142; as controlled hallucination, 211–12; evolutionary issues in, 154; message of, 163; music for, 213–227; scariness of, 167; Serling devices in, 148–150, 151

  Planet of the Apes (2001 movie), 82, 87

  Planet of the Apes (novel); see Boulle, Pierre

  Planet of the Apes (franchise), ix–xi, 3; anti-speciesist message of, 86–77; as cautionary tale, 95, 142, 277; as story of moral progress 84–85; inconsistencies in, 105–06; lessons of, 26; prejudice in, 16; political themes in, 201; racial issues in, 245–254

  Planet of the Apes (TV series), “Escape from Ape City,” 87

  Planet of the Apes (planet), 127, 208

  Planet of the Apes (musical), 254

  Plato, 88, 145, 146; criticism of divine basis for ethics, 88–79; on the soul, 139–140, 142; Republic, 126–142, 145, 149, 184, 210

  Popper, Sir Karl, 194

  power, ability to corrupt, 139–142

  prejudice, 68, 146, 150, 266; arbitrary, 92; human, 90; liberal, 61–62; linguistic, 16, 17, 26

  primitive, 214, 218, 222, 223

  Project Nim (movie), 92, 258; Singer’s review of, xii, 27

  propositions, logical versus empirical, 206

  psychologist’s dilemma, 48–49

  Quine, Willard Van Orman, 23–24

  race, 245–254; ontology of, 247, 251, 252

  Regan, Tom, 69, 267

  Relativity: special, 99–100; general, 102, 112

  religion: and science, 43–44; ape, 265–66; as tool for political control, 125–26, 129–131, 134–35, 140–41; David Hume on, 52, 160

  revolution: ape, 231; American, ix; scientific ix, 196; sexual, ix

  Ring of Gyges, 145

  Rise of the Planet of the Apes (movie), x, xii, 3, 68, 81, 87, 231–243, 255–262; portrayal of drug companies in, 274; sound editing in, 170; morality in, 178; visual effects in, 195, 201

  Robert, Jason Scott, 57, 61–63

  Rodman, Charles, 53, 57, 58, 177

  Rodman, Will, 53, 56–58, 63, 77, 187, 273

  Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 148, 179

  Routley, Richard, 268–270, 272, 274

  Ryder, Richard, 68

  sacred scrolls, 85, 131, 140, 146, 265, 282

  San Bruno Primate Shelter, 3, 13, 30, 87

  Saussure, Ferdinand de, 219, 236–37

  Schaffner, Franklin, 265

  Schoenberg, Arnold, 221

  science, 131–34; ideology of, 41–52; limitations of, 5; of race, 248; philosophy of, 8–8, 44–47, 196; and ethics, 46, 48, 52; social, 157–58

  Sepkoski, Jack, 162

  Serling, Rod, ix, 144–152, 204; optimism of, 149; pessimism of, 149

  sex, ix, 137–38; interracial, 250; interspecies, 250

  sexual orientation, 160, 185

  Shakespeare, William, 210, 234, 284

  Shepard, Paul, 291

  signified, 236–38

  signifier, 236–241

  Singer, Peter, xii, 68, 69, 83; Animal Liberation, 68, 81, 297; anti-speciesist views of 84, 86, 87, 90; views on personhood, 27

  social contract, 145

  Socrates, 194, 198

  speciesism, 68–82, 84–94, 266, 271

  Star Wars (movie), 227

  state of nature, 143

  state of war, 145

  Statue of Liberty, 148, 152

  Sterling, Bruce, 211

  Stewart, 149

  Stravinsky, Igor, 215, 222, 223; The Rite of Spring, 222, 223

  Stringer, Chris, 290

  Swift, Jonathan, 89–90

  Tahrir Square, x

  Taylor, George, 67, 83, 222–25, 276–77; anger of, 276; as anti-hero, 224; as “Bright Eyes,” 17; captivity of, 147, 167–68; destiny of, 121; linguistic capacity, 3, 16, 27, 42, 132, 257; misanthropy of, 223, 266; relationship with Nova, 10, 32, 187; relationship with Zira, 7, 67, 94, 163, 291; speciesism of, 83; trial of, 48–50, 86–87, 196

  Terminator, 287

  time: arrow of, 102; scale, 163; travel, 99–109, 111–121

  Tocqueville, Alexis de, 147, 148

  Tower of Hanoi, 20

  translation, indeterminacy of, 23–24

  Turner, Frederick Jackson, 150

  turtles, orangutan fear of, 11

  Twain, Mark, 254

  Twilight Zone (TV show), 144, 148, 149, 150, 151, 204; “Time Enough at Last,” 148, 149, 151; “Third from the Sun,” 148; “Two,” 149; “Probe, 8—Over and Out,” 149; “The Rip van Winkle Caper,” 149; “On Thursday We Leave for Home,” 149; “The Old Man in the Cave,” 149; “Eye of the Beholder,” 150; “One More Pallbearer,” 151; “The Shelter,” 148; “People Are Alike All Over,” 144

  tyranny of the majority, 147

  United States, 57, 84, 141, 216; factory farming in, 80; race in, 251; involvement in Vietnam, 273

  Ursus, 285

  US Supreme Court, 250

  Verger, 287

  Verne, Jules, 212

  war, 95; in Vietnam, 214, 225, 269, 273; nuclear, 148–49, 151; of all against all, 145–47

  Warhol, Andy, 199

  Washington, George, 152

  Washington, Martha, 152

  Washoe, 266, 271

  wealth, 127, 132, 142

  Wittgenstein, Ludwig, 45, 194;

  On Certainty, 204–211;

  Philosophical Investigations, 35

  women, social role of, 136–37

  World War I, 215

  World War II, 155, 184

  Zack, Naomi, 253

  Zaius, Dr., 69–71, 86–89, 121, 131, 147; and the cave, 149–150, 155, 210; and the Sacred Scrolls, 146; as ideologue, 43; at Taylor’s trial, 205; clothing of, 69, 147; destruction of evidence, 131, 147, 155, 211; elitism of, 139; in Beneath the Planet of the Apes, 267, 268, 276; misanthropy of, 69–70, 89

  Zanuck, Darryl, ix

  Zira, Dr., 131, 134–35, 137, 140, 147, 150, 224, 284, 291

  Žižek, Slavoj, 240, 241, 242–43

 

 

 


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